Prosthetic Culture: Photography, Memory, and Identity

by Celia Lury

Celia Lury describes the body's ability to act outside itself both mechanically and perceptually. She draws on a wide range of examples including phototherapy, accounts of false memory syndrome, family albums and Benetton adverts.

Genres: Photography, Film

260 pages, Paperback

First published April 12, 1997

Reviews

[Daisey Crane · Rating 1 out of 5]

Virtually unreadable due to abstraction and jargon. I really wanted to love this book, as the topic fascinates me.

[Fike Fike · Rating 5 out of 5]

brilliant!

[Christine · Rating 4 out of 5]

Excellent collection of essays about photography in this day and age.